Blaming Bush

Kelley-Romano, Stephanie; Westgate, Victoria

doi:10.1080/14616700701504724

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“…As a form of visual news discourse, editorial cartoons not only comment on current events, but also express concern, criticism and frustration, question those in power and provoke people to react against injustice, often with a satirical and/or comical slant [Kotzé, 1988;Kleeman, 2006;Knieper, 2007;Panneerselvan, 2020]. Cartoons, furthermore, are a visual record of history that helps to construct the rhetoric related to a specific topic or issue [Kelley-Romano and Westgate, 2007].…”

Section: Defining Editorial Cartoons As Well As Their Roles and Relevance To Science Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Tatalovic, 2009;Green and Myers, 2010;Tarver et al, 2016;McNicol, 2017;Farinella, 2018]. By distilling complex issues into a form accessible to a non-expert audience [Kleeman, 2006;Kelley-Romano and Westgate, 2007;Domínguez, 2014], editorial cartoons constitute a form of public science communication.…”

Section: Analysing the Socio-cultural Meaning Of South African Cartoons On Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Spikey blobs with evil grins: understanding portrayals of the coronavirus in South African newspaper cartoons in relation to the public communication of science

Joubert¹,

Wasserman²

2020

JCOM

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This study explores how South African newspaper cartoonists portrayed the novel coronavirus during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic. We show how these cartoons respond to the socio-economic and cultural contexts in the country. Our analysis of how cartoonists represent the novel coronavirus explain how they create meaning (and may influence public sentiments) using colour, morphological characteristics and anthropomorphism as visual rhetorical tools. From a total population of 497 COVID-19-related cartoons published in 15 print and online newspapers from 1 January to 31 May 2020, almost a quarter (24%; n=120) included an illustration of the coronavirus. Viruses were typically coloured green or red and attributed with human characteristics (most often evil-looking facial expressions) and with exaggerated, spikey stalks surrounding the virus body. Anthropomorphism was present in more than half of the 120 cartoons where the virus was illustrated (58%; n=70), while fear was the dominant emotional tone of the cartoons. Based on our analysis, we argue that editorial cartoons provide a useful source to help us understand the broader discursive context within which public communication of science operates during a pandemic.

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Section: Defining Editorial Cartoons As Well As Their Roles and Relevance To Science Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Analysing the Socio-cultural Meaning Of South African Cartoons On Covid-19mentioning

confidence: 99%

Spikey blobs with evil grins: understanding portrayals of the coronavirus in South African newspaper cartoons in relation to the public communication of science

Joubert¹,

Wasserman²

2020

JCOM

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“…Nowadays, more topics can be discussed in society with more interest and influence (Senem, 2016: 297). Kelley-Romano and Westgate (2007) examined cartoons attacking Bush in the month that followed Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the US. Cartoonists blamed Bush, claiming that his personal and policy decisions were harmful for victims and relief efforts.…”

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Pak–India relations: A comparative analysis of political cartoons

Bakhtiar,

Ismail,

Baig

2023

Media, War & Conflict

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A picture is worth than a thousand words. Political cartoons are an important genre in media content and can be used as a tool for propaganda in peace and war times. Permanent hostilities and rising media outlets in the region between India and Pakistan increased the importance of media to cool down hostilities. This study attempts to explore the role of political cartoons in escalated tensions between India and Pakistan, due to the Uri base and Pathankot terrorist attacks in 2016. Therefore, two daily newspapers – DAWN from Pakistan and Times of India from India – published from 1 July 2016 to 31 December 2016 were selected for frame analysis. Findings revealed that both newspapers published 82 cartoons relevant to the study, 29 in DAWN and 53 in Times of India. Analysis of the data reveals that five themes are present in the cartoon content: blame game, Kashmir conflict, role of international actors, peace efforts and dialogue, and water dispute. Blaming the other is dominant in the Times of India and peace efforts and dialogue in DAWN. The Times of India mostly supported Indian government and DAWN rejected the Pakistani stance in cartoon coverage regarding Pak–India relations.

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Approaching Moral Emotions and Moral Emotion Management in Election Campaigns: Introduction

Szabó

2024

Managing Moral Emotions in Divided Politics

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Blaming Bush

Cited by 15 publications

References 29 publications

Spikey blobs with evil grins: understanding portrayals of the coronavirus in South African newspaper cartoons in relation to the public communication of science

Spikey blobs with evil grins: understanding portrayals of the coronavirus in South African newspaper cartoons in relation to the public communication of science

Pak–India relations: A comparative analysis of political cartoons

Approaching Moral Emotions and Moral Emotion Management in Election Campaigns: Introduction

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